The Camargo Foundation () is a residency program for artists, scholars and public intellectuals located in Cassis, France. The foundation was established by American filmmaker and philanthropist Jerome Hill in 1967. Approximately fourteen scholars and artists are selected each year to receive a residential fellowship at the foundation. Prizes have been awarded annually since 1971.
In 2018, the Camargo Foundation campus was awarded the designation of Maison des Illustres, issued by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize the homes of people who have contributed to history, the arts and culture in general in France.
Fellows and residents The full list of former fellows and residents can be viewed in the alumni directory of the Camargo Foundation.
Residents in the 1970s
YearCountryResident1971USAMercer Cook, professor of French and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Niger1973USAFrancis R. Walton, classical scholar and former director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens1974USAIhab Hassan, literary theorist1974USAWallace Fowlie, writer and professor of literature1974USAVictor Brombert, philologist (1923–2024)1977USARaymond Federman, poet1977USARobert Xavier Rodriguez, classical composer (born 1946)1977USARichard Gordon Lillard, author, educator, environmentalist (1909–1990)1978USADavid T. Hanson, photographer (born 1948)1978USADomenic Cretara, painter (1946–2017)1979USAJesse R. Pitts, sociologist (1921–2003)1979USAOliva Blanchette, philosopher (1929–2021)
Residents in the 1980s YearCountryResident1980USAJames R. Lawler, Australian-French academic (1929–2013)1980USAMiriam Beerman, painter and printmaker (1923–2022)1980USASerge Gavronsky, poet and translator (born 1932)1981USAGermaine Brée, literary scholar (1907–2001)1981USALinda Plotkin, printmaker1981USAChristopher Yavelow, classical composer1981USABernard Benstock, literary critic and English professor1982USAMark Axelrod, writer and academic1983USAAnn McMillan, composer and broadcaster (1923–1994)1983USABarry Bergdoll, art historian and former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)1983USADudley Andrew, film theorist1984USARobert Carl, composer1984USAJonathan Culler, novelist and critic1984USAElizabeth Topham Kennan, 15th president of Mount Holyoke College1984USAHerbert Blau, director and theoretician of performance (1926–2013)1984USAKathleen Woodward, cultural critic and higher education leader1985USAHenry Sussman, literary scholar1985USACarol Jacobs, literary scholar1985USAPatricia Blake, editor and confidante of Albert Camus1985USARichard Wilbur, two-time Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate1985USAPatrice Higonnet, professor1985USAMargaret Higonnet, author and historian (b. 1941)1985USABirutė Ciplijauskaitė, literary scholar and translator1985USARudolph Binion, historian (1927–2011)1986USAAlec Stone Sweet, political scientist and jurist1986USARobert Wolke, chemist (1928–2021)1986USAWilliam Jay Smith, poet (1918–2015)1986USAJoel Hoffman, composer1987USAMark Steinmetz, photographer1987USAPhilip Lasser, classical composer (born 1963)1987USACurtis Harnack, writer1987USAHortense Calisher, novelist and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters1987USATimothy Tackett, historian (born 1945)1988USAJudith Roode, artist and teacher (1943–2018)1988USAMichael Lewis-Beck, political scientist (born 1943)1988USARenée Riese Hubert, writer and academic (1916–2005)1988EnglandDavid Bradby, drama & theatre academic (1942–2011)1989USADaron Hagen, composer, writer, and filmmaker (born 1961)1989USAHenri Cole, poet (born 1956)1989USAWilliam Berry, author, artist, and professor of art
Residents in the 1990s
YearCountryResident1990USASheila Silver, composer (born 1946)1990USAJames Salter, writer (1925–2015)1990USALinda Bouchard, composer and conductor1990CanadaMichael Bishop, academic1990USAHenry Sussman, literary scholar1990USAAlan Spitzer, historian (1925–2024)1991USACarol E. Barnett, composer (born 1949)1991USAJosette Urso, visual artist1991USAB. H. Friedman, author and art critic1992USARicardo Zohn-Muldoon, Mexican-American composer1992USACole Swensen, poet (born 1955)1992USAJack Kolbert, educator and French teacher (1927-2005)1992USABarbara Cooper, sculptor1992USALynne Huffer, philosophy professor1992USAHarold Blumenfeld, composer1993USARobert Carl, composer1993USAJoan Benson, keyboardist (1925–2020)1993CanadaMalcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian musician (1936–2011)1993USAAllan Havis, playwright1993USAMargaret Weitz, academic (1929–2025)1994USAJacques Servin, activist artist and one of the leading members of The Yes Men1994USAPaul Moravec, composer (born 1957) and winner of a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition Tempest Fantasy1994USAFrede Jensen, Romance philologist1994USABill Burgwinkle, medievalist and French scholar1994USALaura Volkerding, photographer1994USAMichael Lewis-Beck, political scientist (born 1943)1995USADavid Ray (poet), poet (1932–2024)1995CanadaPierre Ouellet, writer1995USAPaul Jankowski, historian (born 1950)1995USARichard Watson, philosopher, speleologist, and author (1931–2019)1996USAJane Marcus, feminist scholar (1938–2015)1996USAPeter Sagal, playwright and host of the National Public Radio (NPR) show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!1996USACanan Tolon, Turkish-born artist (born 1955)1996USAJim Barnes (writer), writer and 2009-10 Oklahoma Poet Laureate1997USAAdam Rapp, novelist and playwright1997USABonnie Effros, historian of archaeology and 19th century France1997USABarbara K. Altmann, literature professor and 16th president of Franklin & Marshall College1997USAJohn Anthony Lennon, classical composer1997USADerek Attridge, South African-born literary scholar1998USADudley Andrew, film theorist1998USAPaul La Farge, novelist and essayist1998USAKevin Kopelson, literary critic1998USANathan Currier, composer1998USAKaren Volkman, poet1998USAEndi E. Poskovic, visual artist and printmaker1999USAEllen Handler Spitz, professor of children, psychology and the arts1999USATracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, feminist scholar1999USACarlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, composer1999USAChristopher Middleton, British poet and translator (1926–2015)1999USABarbara Hammer, feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She developed her award-winning film Resisting Paradise while in residence.1999USARichard Foerster, poet1999USARudolph Binion, historian (1927–2011)
Residents in the 2000s
YearCountryResident2000USAKaren McCoy, visual artist2000USAWilliam Franke, academic and philosopher2000USARichard Festinger, composer of contemporary classical music2000EnglandDavid Bradby, theatre academic and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2000USAEzra Sims, one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition2000USADaniel W. Gade, professor of Geography2001USAMyriam J. A. Chancy, Haitian-Canadian-American writer2001USAPatricia Hampl, memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator2001USAEddy L. Harris, writer and filmmaker (born 1956)2001USAGreg Hewett, poet, novelist, and professor2001USALeighton Pierce, experimental filmmaker2008USAPauline Oliveros, composer and musician (1932–2016)
Residents in the 2010s YearCountryResident2014USAJoAnn Balingit, 16th poet laureate of Delaware
Residents in the 2020s YearProgramCountryResident2008ImpromptusUSANicholas Boggs, author
References
External links Official Website.